Interview By Design | The World According to Physics March 24, 2020 Every branch of knowledge seeks to provide an account of鈥攕omething: the past, the present, the mind, culture, institutions, social and physical phenomena. Read More
Video An interview with Jim Al鈥慘halili on The World According to Physics March 20, 2020 Making even the most enigmatic scientific ideas accessible and captivating, quantum physicist,聽New York Times聽bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al鈥慘halili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at why physics matters to everyone. Read More
Video Christie Henry on the Press鈥檚 modern mission March 19, 2020 Christie Henry, the first woman to direct 快色直播, was recently on PCTV to discuss the Press鈥檚 new initiatives, long-term mission and vision, and how academic presses collaborate and compete in the publishing world. Read More
Essay The way we work: Old rules and new realities March 18, 2020 The way we work is not sustainable. Sherwin knows this well. He has twenty years of experience as a skilled information technology (IT) professional and is one of the many professionals and managers we interviewed in a Fortune 500 company we call TOMO. Read More
Essay COVID-19 crisis: What we owe each other March 17, 2020 What do we owe each other in this crisis? Let鈥檚 tackle one aspect of this question. A person might think as follows: If I know I am sick, then I understand why I am obligated to self-quarantine. Read More
Interview Rethinking how we view and manage cancer March 16, 2020 When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don鈥檛 necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer.聽 Read More
Essay Me, myself, and Einstein March 14, 2020 Jimena Canales is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher, which tells the remarkable story of how an explosive debate between two intellectual giants transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today. This is the story of how she came to study the iconic physicist when she initially had no interest in 鈥渟uch a great man, or any great men.鈥� Read More
Essay Space-Time Einstein! March 14, 2020 It is once again time to talk about time. On March 14, 1988, Larry Shaw of the San Francisco Exploratorium organized the first official 鈥淧i Day鈥� to celebrate mathematics (and also, for the broad minded, physics). Read More
Essay Alice Calaprice on Einstein: The man behind the myth March 14, 2020 Alice Calaprice is the editor of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. This is the story of how her knack for German and quest for full-time work in 快色直播, New Jersey led her to a career she never imagined. Read More
Essay Beware the Ides of March March 13, 2020 Imagine a rogue general, assigned only to guard the frontiers of his country鈥檚 remote provinces 鈥� but the authorities back in the capital tacitly approve of some adventurism. He goes on a rampage through neighboring territories, allying himself with certain ethnic groups in the region against others. Read More
Essay The Einstein Papers project鈥檚 general inbox March 13, 2020 The pace and atmosphere of an academic research project does not always match that of contemporary day-to-day life. Steeped decades back in time, the Einstein Papers Project鈥檚 current research for our next two volumes covers June 1927 through June 1931. Read More
Essay Hanoch Gutfreund on Einstein and the revelation of relativity March 12, 2020 Hanoch Gutfreund is professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is also the academic director of the Albert Einstein Archives. This is the story about how Einstein鈥檚 General Theory of Relativity revolutionized his teaching, understanding, and career. Read More
Essay The final days of Albert Einstein March 11, 2020 Albert Einstein鈥檚 time on earth ended on April 18, 1955, at the 快色直播 Hospital. In April of 1955, shortly after Einstein鈥檚 death, a pathologist removed his brain without the permission of his family, and stored it in formaldehyde until around 2007, shortly before dying himself. Read More
Essay Katherine Freese on how relativity rejuvenated her career March 10, 2020 Katherine Freese is director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Stockholm, and author of The Cosmic Cocktail, which tells of the epic quest to solve one of the most compelling enigmas of modern science鈥攚hat is the universe made of? This is the story of how one of today鈥檚 foremost pioneers in the study of dark matter came back from the brink of burnout because of Relativity. Read More
Interview Jim Al鈥慘halili on The World According to Physics March 10, 2020 Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al鈥慘halili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality聽itself. Read More
